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Results of the first NCN calls published

Friday, 7 October 2011

The National Science Centre published the results of the four calls for proposals announced in March 2011. In total PLN 500 million will be distributed to 1871 projects.

The Centre received almost 8 thousand proposals under the calls for the funding of research projects in the following categories: general grants, pre-doctoral grants, PhD holders grants and non co-financed grants. Polish researches applied for over 2.5 billion PLN, whereas the amount available was 0.5 billion PLN.

Evaluation of proposals submitted under the calls was divided into two stages. In the first stage, the proposals were evaluated in terms of content only by Polish experts grouped in expert panels appointed for each call. Nearly 4 thousand proposals accepted in the first phase underwent further evaluation by external experts, both Polish and foreign. Based on those evaluations the expert panels made final decisions on financing chosen projects. The overall success rate for the calls was nearly 24%.

CALL

Group of sciences

Proposals submitted

Proposals qualified for the 2nd stage of evaluation

Proposals that received funding

Success rate (in %)

GENERAL GRANTS

NZ

1171

531

271

23,14

ST

1632

684

377

23,10

HS

888

397

253

28,49

PRE-DOCTORAL GRANTS

NZ

814

316

182

22,36

ST

965

465

262

27,15

HS

629

282

169

26,87

PHD HOLDERS GRANTS

NZ

429

157

75

17,48

ST

575

231

118

20,52

HS

411

174

96

23,36

NON CO-FINANCED INTERNATIONAL GRANTS

NZ

99

50

28

28,28

ST

171

78

27

15,79

HS

42

30

13

30,95

NZ – Life Sciences

ST – Physical Sciences and Engineering

HS – Social Sciences and Humanities

See the list of all projects funded by the National Science Centre (in Polish).